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Voters in seven states could review evaluations of incumbent judges’ performance on the bench before this fall’s judicial elections, according to a joint release issued Oct. 16. The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal…
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Three Florida Supreme Court justices facing an organized drive to remove them in November spent much of the year raising money and fighting in court to keep their names on the ballot. In Florida’s merit retention…
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The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the matching funds provision of Arizona’s public campaign financing law on June 27, ruling 5-4 that the provision “substantially burdens the speech of privately financed candidates” and independent groups without…
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Special interest groups and the candidates spent about $5.4 million on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, mostly on negative radio and television ads, according to a report the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign released April 19. The Madison…
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Ads attacking state supreme court justices were on the air in the closing weeks before the Nov. 2 election in Alaska, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan. FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the…
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